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Russia’s ongoing territorial occupation of Ukraine’s eastern and southern regions is accompanied by an informational and cultural occupation aimed at flooding local social media communities with messaging designed to foster […]
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Taiwan has gained global recognition as a country at the forefront of cognitive warfare. Given their expertise in information production and dissemination, journalists respond differently to cognitive warfare compared with […]
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Disinformation is a threat for the quality of democracy, fueling a dissonant public sphere. At the same time, AI has emerged as a technology which could be used to automate […]
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A growing body of literature examines manipulative information by detecting political mis-/disinformation in text data. This line of research typically involves highly costly manual annotation of text for manual content […]
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In the Philippines, disinformation and authoritarian rhetoric and governance accompanied a sharp decline in the respect for civil liberties and democratic institutions. This persistent culture of impunity doubly impacts journalists. […]
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Resilience to disinformation on social media relies on the user’s ability to critically assess disinformation and even counter it. Active users, who, with their actions, can curate the information environment […]
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The “Great Replacement Theory” (GRT) is an extremist narrative that has gained increased prominence within anti-immigration and conspiratorial discourses in Western societies, yet remains understudied. We first conceptualize the GRT […]
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New technologies are offering companies, politicians, and others unprecedented opportunity to manipulate us. Sometimes we are given the illusion of power – of freedom – through choice, yet the game […]
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Previous research on political communication on Russia’s most popular social network VK has concluded that most users avoid news by not following legacy-news accounts. In this study, we expand the […]
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Sweden has increasingly come into international far right focus, and digital media sites in the United States have proven especially active in spreading mis- and disinformative narratives about the country. […]
